North Korea is taking this a lot further than I had expected. Russia is stepping back. China has little reason to back North Korea at this point, and any further provocation will bring the full force of South Korea, Japan and the United States down on their shitty country. Does Kim feel lucky?

While it is true enough that Trumps tweets might push Kims buttons… Kim just detonated a hydrogen bomb as an exclamation point on his position… I think that bomb was in development long before Trump took to Twitter… So who is and has been escalating what?

It does appear that North Korea has successfully tested a true two-stage thermonuclear “device”.

The yield is too large to credibly be attributed to anything else, and the device exhibited in the DPRK picture looks like a fairly sophisticated design, the “peanut” design with a spherical secondary stage. Even the primary is smaller than the last device exhibited.

I’m confused by the photo – which one is fat man and which is little boy? {cough}

Kidding aside, I think the key takeaway from Trump’s ineptitude is that he’s going to accelerate the development of nuclear arms, whether through public demonstration or secret projects, for the duration of his presidency.

The man is astonishingly ignorant about nuclear issues, and made statements during his candidacy that were both oblivious about non-proliferation efforts and at best indifferent to the idea of additional nations becoming nuclear powers. As this is Trump, he has since learned nothing.

China is using North Korea as muscle to crack US supremacy, call our bluff. Trump has to convince them he’ll actually pull the trigger. Ends in either US cowering or China calling off dogs to credible US preemptive strike.

Russia increased its deployed nuclear warheads over the past six months under a strategic arms reduction treaty as U.S. nuclear warhead stocks declined sharply, according to the State Department.

Russia since Obama went into the Whitehouse has been upgrading and expanded their own nuclear arsenal… In just about every aspect the US is playing catchup… MSM’s use of the words ‘Arms Race’ is indicative of the kind of journalism that the left puts out… Trump most certainly understands that, as with borders, unilateral disarmament will invite far more trouble that a strong defense… Lets not forget that China has already tested hypersonic weapons… The US under Obama has backed down when it comes to our real advisories…